May 27 2008
From the Principal’s Desk: Week of May 27, 2008
Over the weekend, I had the opportunity to watch the full documentary “2 Million Minutes“.
Several key factors were loudly spoken in the documentary:
· American students are not globally aware
· Strong minds and discoveries happen everywhere
· Students in China and India view education as a means to economic opportunities
· American students score higher in self confidence than any other student group in the world
· American students work as hard as other students in the world. Often there work is attached to jobs outside of school and co-curricular activities
Concluding thoughts to ponder
American children are as smart and capable as other children of the world and are frequently viewed as having all the things that others in the world want. Children in other parts of the world are willing to work extremely hard to gain placement in US college and universities as they want what American children have. Education is their means of economic prosperity and a better life.
Events of the Week:
1. ISC Seniors: Finals begin Wednesday, period 4 and 5, conclude Thursday, periods 1,2,and 3. Graduation Practices is Friday following the Senior Breakfast.
2. OLY Luau – Friday, short assembly at the end of the day. Schedule is forthcoming.
3. ISC Graduation: Tuesday, June 3rd 7:00 at South Sister, DCFG. This is an exciting time for students and parents. Our work together is to make it memorable and respectful.
4. Finals: This week our ISC seniors are taking finals, next Monday and Tuesday Global Academy seniors take finals, the following week finals are scheduled on Wednesday, June 11th periods 1,3, and 5 and Thursday, June 12th period 2 and 4.
Once again, Thank you for the Welcome Back poster.
Have a wonderful educationally focused week.
Donna Howard,
Principal
International School of the Cascades
Redmond High School – Hartman Building
